Do you remember when is the last time you get angry?
What did you do to control your anger?
Do you scream, yell, or throw stuff around?
Well.. don’t feel down if you get mad, as a human being it is normal to be angry
What’s matter is how we process our anger
The process of managing our emotional pain is just the same as managing physical pain.
Here are an example of a process to manage the pain, applicable for both emotional pain (EP) and physical pain (PP).
Steps to process the Emotional Pain (EP) and Physical Pain (PP)
• Confront the pain
• Complain
(usually accompanied with WH questions to allow proper • diagnose)
• Diagnose
• Treatment
• Maintenance for full recovery
If you are able to process it by yourself, please go on .. if not, you shall ask someone for help to process your emotions
I have simplified the mechanism of treating both the physical and emotional pain below..
Example of Mechanism to process Emotional Pain (EP) and Physical Pain (PP)
Situation
EP: For finger is bleeding due to a cut from a knife
PP: You are sad with your close friends’ action and your heart is “bleeding”
Confront the pain
EP: you feel a pain and you are bleeding, ask help from a doctor if it is a severe cut
PP: Aware that you are angry and sad
Complain
EP: knowing ... what, why, where, how, when ... you are bleeding
PP: knowing ... what, why, where, how, when ... you are feeling hurt
Diagnose
EP: bleed because of a cut from a knife
PP: Feeling hurt because .. exp: your friend ignored you when you share with him/her your problem
Treatment
EP: apply medication a bandage
PP: Confront the person- have heart-to-heart conversation, telling your close friend your feeling and the reason of your sadness
Maintenance for full recovery
EP: Redha, take care of the wound
PP: Redha, protect your emotion, time will heal
It is really important to fully process of pain as it will allow us to heal
Without the proper process of solving the emotional pain, the pain may prolong for months and even years, and once its lengthen, the burden is also increasing
It is just the same as physical pain.. if you left an untreated wound for a long time, you’ll expose the wound to other bacteria/ virus and it may attack other components of your body
So, it is really important to aware of your pain and treats it properly to avoid it to become severe
It is easier to ignore our emotional pain as it is cannot be seen with a bare eye but only the person who experienced the pain will understand the heaviness of the burden
Hope this will help
Thanks.
Peace.
Disclaimer: just what to let you know that the input on the process of managing pain is referred based on an online seminar of “Toxic Positivity: Being Positive, But In A Negative Way” given by Aiman Azlan. You shall purchase the seminar in https://aimanazlan.com/